Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy Books
The Practice of Family Therapy: Key Elements Across Models
Now in its 5th edition, The Practice of Family Therapy comes at a time when traditional approaches to psychotherapy have given way to multidimensional strategies that best serve the needs of diverse... (more)
Systems Theories for Psychotherapists: From Theory to Practice
Systems Theories for Psychotherapists explores three key theories that underpin many of the models of psychotherapy: general systems theory, natural systems theory, and language systems theory. The... (more)
Couples Therapy - Theory and Effective Practice: Third Edition
This new edition of Couples Therapy tackles four challenges currently facing the field: (1) accountability and the increasing demands for demonstrating effectiveness as a condition for reimbursement,... (more)
Death and Chronic Illness in the Family: Bowen Family Systems Theory Perspectives
What does it mean to be 'present and accounted for' when a family member is facing chronic illness or death? How does one define a self in relation to the ill or dying member and the family? Rooted... (more)
Engaging Couples: New Directions in Therapeutic in Work with Families
This book is a challenge to the silos in our human services that an 'atomized' focus gives rise to. They are evident in the chasm that can exist between child and adult mental health care, between... (more)
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Volume 8 Number 1
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal is an international journal sponsored by The Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, and aims to promote the theory and practice of working with couple and... (more)
The Science of Couples and Family Therapy: Behind the Scenes at the Love Lab
World renowned for their work on divorce prediction, here John M. and Julie Schwartz Gottman examine a couples therapy classic: Ludwig von Bertalanffy's 1968 collection General System Theory. This... (more)
The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening
David Rakel explores why it is so hard for us to connect on a deep level with others, particularly those who are suffering. We constantly find ourselves interrupted and inundated with tasks and... (more)
Sex and the Single Aspie
This ground-breaking book about sexuality speaks to women on the autism spectrum in fresh new ways, opening doors to discussion, and blowing the lid off taboo subjects. One of the many problems... (more)
Perspectives of Divorced Therapists: Can I Get It Right for Couples?
Through interviews with divorced therapists from diverse cultures, philosophies, and generations, this book explores how a therapist's divorce impacts their work with clients in couples therapy.... (more)
Contextual Therapy for Family Health: Clinical Applications
This book provides readers with a compelling case for the inclusion of contextual therapy in comprehensive healthcare settings by presenting its applications to individual and family health across... (more)
Expanding the Practice of Sex Therapy: The Neuro Update Edition-An Integrative Approach for Exploring Desire and Intimacy
The revised edition of this award-winning book offers 33 Neuro Updates, which provide evidence-based data to help you recognize and explain the deeply transformational nature of the work. Expanding... (more)
A Family Systems Guide to Infidelity: Helping Couples Understand, Recover From, and Avoid Future Affairs
A Family Systems Guide to Infidelity offers an explanatory model and concrete techniques, enabling therapists and counselors to treat the core of a couple's relationship problems instead of merely... (more)
Family Based Treatment for Restrictive Eating Disorders: A Guide for Supervision and Advanced Clinical Practice
Family Based Treatment for Restrictive Eating Disorders unpacks some of the most common dilemmas providers face in implementation of Family Based Treatment (FBT) across the spectrum of restrictive... (more)
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Parenting Teens and Young Adults: Changing Patterns in Modern Love, Loss, and Longing
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Parenting Teens and Young Adults explores the rich, multi-layered parent-child interactions that unfold during the period of separation and launching. While this is a... (more)
Rewriting the Rules: An Anti Self-Help Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships
We live in a time of uncertainty about relationships. We search for The One but find ourselves staying single because nobody measures up. We long for a happily-ever-after but break-up after break-up... (more)
Essential Skills in Family Therapy, Third Edition: From the First Interview to Termination
Many tens of thousands of students and beginning clinicians have relied on this engaging, authoritative text--now revised and expanded--to hit the ground running in real-world clinical practice.... (more)
EMDR in Family Systems: An Integrated Approach to Healing Trauma
EMDR in Family Systems provides clinicians with a clear account of the EMDR process and a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to healing trauma through integrating EMDR with other therapeutic tools.... (more)
Emotion Focused Family Therapy with Children and Caregivers: A Trauma-Informed Approach
This book introduces Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) as an evidence-based intervention for children through the integration of parent trauma treatment and emotion-focused techniques. A team of... (more)
Brief Therapy With Couples and Families in Crisis
As the average length of therapy shortens, clinicians need a resource to lead them step-by-step through the goals and process of the opening sessions of brief therapy as well as clear treatment maps... (more)
Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Perspectives on Step-families and Step-parenting
Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Perspectives on Step-families and Step-parenting looks at the role step-parents can play in the psychic development of children. Step-parenting requires enormous... (more)
Creating an Effective Couple Therapy Practice
Most clinicians think they are effective but have no true indicators that this is the case. Some may even be implementing evidence-based interventions yet have no true understanding of their results.... (more)
Family Therapy: An Introduction to Process, Practice, and Theory
Family Therapy: An Introduction to Process, Practice and Theory is a primer for students, professionals, and trainees to understand how family therapists conceptualize the problems people bring to... (more)
The Anatomy of a Couples Therapy Session: The 50 Minute Hour in Eight Stages
How does a couples' therapist actually run a 50-minute session? What needs to happen? What must happen? Managing this time and knowing how to guide a couple through what can be a rocky roller coaster... (more)
Family Therapy: A Constructive Framework
Family Therapy introduces practitioners to the principles of using a constructive and collaborative approach with families. The approach builds on a strengths-based philosophy and focuses on... (more)
Uncoupling Convention: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Same-sex Couples and Families
What does it mean to be member of a gay/lesbian couple or family? The contributors to Uncoupling Convention: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Same-Sex Couples and Families address this question by... (more)
Supporting Parents: Messages from Research
"Supporting Parents" explores the range of supports that parents find effective and how those supports might be improved or better mobilized. It draws from studies on the general population as well... (more)
Stepping Out: Using Games and Activities to Help Your Child with Special Needs
Parents and carers of children with conditions such as autism, Down's Syndrome or other forms of developmental delay can do much to help encourage their childs development. Stepping Out provides... (more)
The Narcissistic/Borderline Couple: New Approaches to Marital Therapy (2nd Edition)
In this second edition to her book, Dr Joan Lachkar ventures to go beyond narcissistic and borderline couples to a melange of many other dyadic configurations. The book has been updated to... (more)